11 February: An all-new preview, better OpenAPI blocks and more

We’ve given your site preview a big upgrade with extra options, improved our OpenAPI blocks, added some new integrations, and more

✨ New and noteworthy

A new way to preview your site

You can now use the Preview tab in a change request or your site’s dashboard to see how your site looks with the changes you’ve applied.

It also lets you easily switch between the light and dark mode of your site, and also view it on desktop and mobile sized viewports — all in one place.

Improved OpenAPI blocks

We’ve updated the design of OpenAPI blocks in GitBook. They’re now cleaner and easier to navigate, with a refreshed design. We’ve also improved the appearance of the Test it section, to make it clearer and more obvious in the interface.

This is just the first improvement in a bunch of upcoming improvements to API documentation in GitBook. Stay tuned — we’ll have more to share soon.

New Hexus and letmeexplain integrations

We’ve just released new Hexus and letmeexplain integrations in GitBook.

The Hexus integration lets you embed interactive Hexus product demos, walkthroughs, and how-to guides directly into your Gitbook pages for easy access and visualization.

Meanwhile, the letmeexplain integration allows you to display the letmeexplain chat widget on your public documentation to connect and interact with your readers.

Improved

• In your published docs, the page outline now stays sticky at the top of your page, even when moving all the way down to the footer. It now also contains the light/dark mode selector, which you’ll always find down in the bottom right. And if that’s all your footer contained, we’ll hide it to keep the bottom of your page cleaner.

• We removed the Snippets section for any organizations that still had snippets saved there, and converted them all to pages within a new space.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue when setting the default variant in a site section would override the site default.

• Fixed the badge color for page ratings in site insights, so now Good is green, OK is grey and Bad is red, as expected.

• Fixed a bug that kept switching the focus when you tried to click and type into a comment box.

• Fixed a bug that was causing page icons to overspill their container when you were browsing icons.

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We’re constantly working to improve the way you and your team work in GitBook, and value your input on features, bugs, and more. Make sure you head to our official GitBook community to join the discussion.